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I Have Had It With Word Verification

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vordverI just counted, I follow 67 blogs. And every time any one of them posts a post, I read it and usually I comment. I don’t feel like I get as many comments as I give. Maybe everybody else doesn’t feel the same way about comments as I do. I’ve come to the point that I don’t expect many comments.

One thing I cannot stand, is the word verification. I’ve posted about it before HERE. Blogger and WordPress and everybody has good spam protection. Word Verification is unnecessary and insulting. A person can turn it off and on at will. So someone can turn it off, and if they have problems they can turn it back on. Or, if someone does spam them they can simply “mark as spam” and the problem is solved. Don’t punish everybody for the actions of the extreme minority. Most of those with word verification on are those who post, expect (and sometimes get) a lot of comments, but never ever comment on anybody else’s blog. They’ve never experienced the frustration of word verification. Some people have word verification on AND comment moderation. They are the lowest of the low.

I’m not commenting on any more blogs that have word verification. Look at the above picture, can you read those? A lot of time I type more on the word verification than I do the comment. “Please prove you’re not a robot, type the words below.” That pisses me off right there. Neither is a word, one is a jumble of letters and the other is numbers. Those aren’t words.

I could go on and on.but I won’t. Maybe I will… Later.

Wednesday Picture Post

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It’s a Holiday here. I have the day off but the wife is working, unfortunately. Below are some random pictures from the past week or so.

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Cruise ship from the air, taken when I was on my way to Cayman Brac for work last week.

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Last months full moon, coming up over the neighbors house.Jan 31, 2013 004Heron and snorkelers.

Wordless Wednesday

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jan-23-2013-000jan-23-2013-001For those of you who don’t know, when you don’t have anything to say, and it’s Wednesday, it’s legal to do a post called Wordless Wednesday, not to be confused with Silent Saturday. So since I have nothing to post about today, I’m just posting these pictures and I’m not saying a word.

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Smith Cove at Lunchtime

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Above and below are my attempts and over/under shots. You try to get the waterline exactly in the middle of the lens so that you can see both above and below the water. Dismal attempts.

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Flashback Friday: Kindergarten Kite

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kiteThe year was 1965, the place was Brookhaven Elementary School, Rockville Maryland USA. I was in Kindergarten, 5 years old, first year of real school. Kindergarten was half day, either in the mornings or afternoons. I was in the morning class.

One day, my class and I made kites out of construction paper. Then we went out on the huge vast playground to fly them. In my memory, this playground was huge. Huge paved section, huge grassy section, with trees way far far away on the horizon.

I was running and trying to get my kite in the air, the kite was pretty small, so it didn’t fly too good, but I was really trying to get it up there. All of a sudden, I noticed that all the other kids on the playground were really big, and I looked and looked and didn’t see anybody from my class.

I started crying.

Eventually a teacher asked my why I was crying.

“I can’t find anybody with a kite like mine” I whined, and held up my kite for her to see.

Turns out, morning kindergarten was over, I was trying so hard to make my kite fly that I missed the bell that signaled the end of recess, missed the end of school, everybody in my class had gone home and I had stayed in school late. So I went home.

That’s my Flashback Friday for today. Have a good weekend.

I was thinking about an advantage of the Free Blogger or WordPress blog over the pay-for-your-own blog. When you die, the free blog will stay up, but with a pay-for-your-own, when the payment is due and you can’t pay (because you’re dead) the blog will come down. A free blog would theoretically remain up forever, a tribute to the bloggers life and history.

Blog Post Subjects?

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Day before yesterday, I was talking to The Wife about the blogs. I asked her if she was going to post and she said “I don’t have anything prepared”. I laughed so hard milk squirted out of my nose. (not really, I wasn’t drinking milk. When someone says “I laughed so hard milk squirted out of my nose”, it just means they thought something was VERY funny, it doesn’t mean they were drinking milk, in fact, it doesn’t even necessarily mean they really laughed out loud.) However, if you ARE drinking milk and you laugh so hard milk squirts out your nose, then that’s double funny, (1) what made you laugh and (2) the milk actually squirting out of your nose!

I never prepare posts for this blog. I just get up, shower shave get dressed and coffee, and sit down and start typing. Do you prepare for posts? Research? experimentation? Work on it for days before posting it? Just wondering.

socthAnother fun fact. When I get dressed in the morning, I rummage blindly in the dark in my sock/underwear/t-short drawer till I find socks. Then I wear pants to match the socks. ‘Cause if I put on pants, and then try to find socks to match the pants, no way that’s happening, all my socks that color would diabolically disappear.

That’s it for today. Happy Hump Day!

Blogging Software

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I was looking at reviews for blogging software. I only know about WordPress and Blogger. I use WordPress for this site, but there’s things I’d like to get sorted out.

I;m kind of surprised buy the reviews I read. HERE. It says WordPress has excellent  technical support and to me, it seems non existent. It says WordPress had no Slideshow capability, and it does.

I’m not planning on making any changes yet, but WordPress doesn’t give me the control I expected when I bought my own site and installed the software. They’re already pressuring me to install updates. Anyway I’m fishin’

No More Slideshows

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I noticed on my old posts with slideshows the photos have been disappearing. So I have to look into that. Also on the old old imported posts, like over three years old, the comments aren’t there on the page, but do appear on my control panel.

That is not what I planned on posting about today….

Above are some pictures I took during my lunchtime snorkeling the past couple of weeks..

Thursday Ramble

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Above are some pictures from last weekend.

I hate ironing. I can’t believe people still iron clothes in these modern times. In the Navy, we ironed all the time and I can’t remember it being such a pain in the ass.

We have a weather system moving in. I can hear waves from the back porch and it is cloudy cloudy and windy windy. Yesterday it was cloudy so I took the car instead of the bike. I left 5 minutes late and got to work a half an hour later than usual. And then it didn’t rain all day. I was stuck in traffic like a mere mortal. Today I’m driving again. It better rain!

I like this new blog, Now my problem is linking my reader with this blog instead of my old one. Also I can’t make the Twitter widget show up, but I’m not too worried about that at this time.

I gotta go! Have a good day!